CRESSKILL — Edward Arnold is no novice when it comes to car chases: The Dumont man who allegedly led Cresskill police on a chase Friday afternoon was arrested in 2017 after a midnight chase through Glen Rock and Ridgewood.

Arnold, 30, was arrested Friday after police tried to pull him over on Knickerbocker Road for a traffic violation, then chased him down residential streets when he drove off, according to police.

Police said the chase ended after he rammed his vehicle into a police car going east on Maple Avenue, which cause Arnold's car to spin out. Arnold then crashed into another police car coming in the opposite direction.

With his car damaged and a tire blown out, police said Arnold got out of his car and led police on a short foot pursuit before they captured him in the backyard of a home near Knickerbocker Road and Maple Avenue.

Lanzilotti said the investigation is ongoing to determine if Arnold was driving under the influence.

Lanzilotti also said Arnold has a criminal record that includes an arrest in Bergenfield in 2017.

In December 2017, Arnold, then residing in Bergenfield, was arrested for allegedly trying to hide two gold rings in a toilet in the Walgreens store in Bergenfield that had originally been in a Honda SUV he stole from a parking lot in Dumont.

Arnold's arrest came after he led police on a midnight chase through Bergen County, after a Fair Lawn police officer observed the SUV swerve from the far left lane to the far right lane of Route 4. Police chased the vehicle through Glen Rock and Ridgewood.

Arnold was caught an hour later after the vehicle was found empty in a Bergenfield parking lot.

Arnold was charged in that incident as well as several others that occurred in both 2016 and 2017 that led to him serving a four-month jail sentence last year, according to the state Department of Corrections.